Jamie Metcalfe
@metjam
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interested by people, music, psychology . Streaming on twitch at MetjamDJs. Check out https://t.co/MPUz622tvo
Melbourne
Joined January 2008
To procrastinate is to be entitled. It is arrogant. It assumes there will be a later. It assumes you’ll have the discipline to get to it later (despite not having the discipline now).
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Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.
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Eliminating microplastics entirely is not realistic—they’re everywhere. Reducing exposure, though? Totally within reach with some evidence-backed strategies. Think of it as imperfect avoidance. My top tips are: Try filtering tap water with a reverse osmosis system—studies show
You can’t escape microplastics—but you can fight back Everyday habits like drinking from plastic bottles, eating canned soup, or microwaving popcorn can quietly expose you to harmful chemicals like BPA and PFAS These toxins can linger in your body for years, increasing your
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Remember, there’s no greatness in the future. Or clarity. Or insight. Or happiness. Or peace. There is only this moment.
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The older I get, the more I realize that success at most things isn't about finding the one trick or secret nobody knows about. It's consistently doing the boring, mundane things everyone knows about but is too unfocused/undisciplined to do. Get good at boring.
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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” — Rumi
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One of the most powerful passages in Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations":
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A recent study showed that morning coffee drinkers had a 12% lower risk of all-cause mortality and a 31% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease over a 10-year period. This benefit was specific to morning coffee drinkers, as no similar protective effects were observed
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Vitamin D supplementation was associated with a 40% lower risk of dementia over a decade, a relatively recent study shows. After five years, 84% of supplement users were dementia-free compared to just 68% of non-users in a study of over 12,000 people. Vitamin D reduced dementia
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Many to-go coffee cups are lined with plastic And when you pour in hot water or coffee... you're ingesting a slew of chemicals like BPA that leech in Same goes for the microwave, get this: Microwaving food in plastic containers can release over *4 million* microplastic
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Today's "1984"-type totalitarianism is more dangerous than the "tanks and torture"-type of totalitarianism in the past. There is no need to rig elections or overthrow governments if the ruling party, the media, and state-sponsored NGOs control the information environment.
Brazil's Supreme Court just banned X and announced an $8,900/day penalty for those who use a VPN to evade it. Don't dismiss what's happening because it's Brazil. It isn't an outlier. It's the start of the totalitarian future George Orwell presciently predicted in "1984."
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